Delsarte
FRANÇOIS ALEXAN- DRE NICOLAS CHERI (del-sart'), a French educator; born in Solesmes, Dec. 19, 1811.
His father, a physician, sent him to Paris to study with a painter on china 1822, but he entered the Conservatory 1825. He attained distinction as a tenor singer in the Opera Comique, suddenly lost his voice, and thereafter applied himself to musical and dramatic instruction, having among his pupils many who afterward achieved operatic and dramatic celebrity. His chief work was the elaboration of a system of dramatic expression . He aimed to make elocution a science . He died in Paris, July 19, 1871.